Technology development and market trend analysis of radiopharmceuticals using patent statistics data

ABSTRACT

Radiopharmaceuticals are constantly being studied in the field of tumor diagnosis and therapy. As a result,
many patents have been registered related to the development of radiopharmaceutical therapy. In this study,
effective patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine filed during the past 10 years were collected from
various countries like Korea, United States, Japan, Europe etc., and the application trends and growth stages
were analyzed through statistical analysis. From the analysis results of 47,991 patents related to radiology
and nuclear medicine, only 6,268 registered patents were found valid, and 80% of those were related to
radiopharmaceutical development. In addition, we analyzed the patent of major competitors and used them to
analyze the trends in radioisotopes and medicinal research. Among these, all the top 10 major applicants have
found to be concentrating on radiopharmaceutical development.

Affiliations

Seungil Park1,2, Heejin Kim1, Jung Young Kim1*
1Division of Applied RI, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, Korea
2Industrialization Promotion Center, Korean Association for Radiation Application, Seoul, Korea